Perdana University, also known as PU, is an emerging Malaysian private university located in Serdang, Malaysia focusing on health science programmes at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Perdana University was officially incorporated in 2011. In 2017, Perdana University was awarded Tier 4: Very Good in the Rating System for Malaysian Higher Education 2017 from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. The University took in its very first students in 2011 with the opening of the PU-RCSI School of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine. At present, the University consists of 6 Schools and 2 Centres. The School of Business is the latest school formed recently. The main campus of PU is located in MAEPS, Serdang, Selangor.
The University was established in 2011 under the auspices of the Public-Private Partnership by the Academic Medical Centre Sdn Bhd with the support of the Public Private Partnership Unit of the Prime Minister’s Department. It began with two medical programmes: the Doctor of Medicine, offered through the Graduate School of Medicine, and the Bachelor of Medicine conducted by the Perdana University-Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine. Since then, Perdana University has expanded with other programmes: Occupational Therapy, Data Science, Business and Foundation in Science. The opening of Perdana University and the medical programme was officiated by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato' Seri Najib Razak while the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was appointed as its Founding Chancellor. Dato' Pahlawan Dr. R. Mohana Dass served as the founding Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the Perdana University. The University operates from an interim campus in the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang.
Schools and programmes
The university has six schools and two research centres — all of which are in the main campus building in Serdang. All study programmes are offered at this campus with clinical training conducted at partner hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
Established since the founding of the university, the Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine is the first and only medical school in Malaysia to offer the four-year US-style Graduate Entry Medicine program for aspiring doctors. This collaboration between Perdana University and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine sets the stage for a new era for the education landscape in Malaysia. It enables Science Bachelor’s degree holders to pursue their dreams to be practicing medical doctors by following an American-based medical degree programme. The school offers the following programmes:
Doctor of Medicine
Master of Science
School of Occupational Therapy (PUScOT)
Perdana University is the only private university in Malaysia to offer the Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy. Students get to do clinical placements from Year 1 of their studies, so that upon graduation they would have fulfilled 1,360 clinical hours. Professor Nathan Vytialingam, an occupational therapist expert, is the current dean of the Perdana University School of Occupational Therapy. The school offers the following programmes:
